Chukovsky Museum how to get there from Solntsevo. Chukovsky House Museum: excursions, history
I have known about the house-museum of Korney Chukovsky in Peredelkino for a long time, but we visited it quite recently. You can only get inside as part of a guided tour. We didn’t specifically order it, but when we got there, it turned out that an excursion for schoolchildren had just started. They joined us to it :).
1. This is not a book, this is a chandelier with illustrations to the Cluttering Fly.
2. Streets of Peredelkino 
3. Entrance to the local children's library 
4. The drawings on the pillars have become worn out 
5. This is the entrance to the territory of the house-museum, you can go in 
And here is Chukovsky’s house itself. It is quite large, not like Okudzhava’s house.
The house was built in the mid-1930s and is typical of the time. Chukovsky lived here from 1938 until...
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At first glance, it’s just a tree. If you look closely, you can see a lot of shoes hanging on it.
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8. This is the same Miracle tree on which “boots and shoes” grow. 
When you prepare a report, you always discover something interesting that you yourself didn’t know before.
I knew that Korney Chukovsky was a pseudonym (in fact, he is Nikolai Korneychukov). But I didn’t know that he was illegitimate. His father is Emmanuel Solomonovich Levenson, in whose house Nikolai’s mother worked as a maid.
9. Blue living room 
The world has always been a big village, so Chukovsky’s acquaintance with various interesting people started already in childhood. Yes, he went to kindergarten in the same group with Volodya Jabotinsky - the future leader of right-wing Zionism, creator of the Jewish Legion, writer, and so on and so forth.
10. The entire furnishings were preserved by his daughter and granddaughter. 
And Boris Zhitkov was a classmate at the gymnasium - also future writer and traveler.
11. Drawings 
12. There are about 4.5 thousand books, many in English. 
Despite the fact that it would seem that the writer was treated kindly by the authorities, he did not hesitate along with the general line of the party.
So, in 1966, he signed a letter to Brezhnev against the rehabilitation of Stalin, wrote a retelling of the Bible for children (the circulation was destroyed by the authorities), and maintained relations with the disgraced Solzhenitsyn.
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Before he died, he wrote a list of people he would not want to see at his funeral.
In general, Yulian Oksman (literary critic) quite harshly describes the atmosphere of the writer’s funeral:
“There are few people, but, as at the funeral of Ehrenburg, Paustovsky, the police - darkness. In addition to uniforms, there are many “boys” in civilian clothes, with gloomy, contemptuous faces. The boys began by cordoning off the chairs in the hall, not allowing anyone to linger or sit down. A seriously ill Shostakovich came. In the lobby he was not allowed to take off his coat. It was forbidden to sit in a chair in the hall. There was a scandal.
Civil funeral service. The stuttering S. Mikhalkov utters pompous words that do not fit in with his indifferent, even devil-may-care intonation: “From the Union of Writers of the USSR...”, “From the Union of Writers of the RSFSR...”, “From the publishing house “Children’s Literature”...”, “ From the Ministry of Education and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences...” All this is pronounced with stupid significance, with which, probably, the doormen of the last century, during the departure of guests, called for the carriage of Count So-and-So and Prince So-and-So. Who are we burying, finally? The official bonzu or the cheerful and mocking clever Korney? A. Barto rattled off her “lesson.” Cassil performed a complex verbal pirouette to make his listeners understand how personally close he was to the deceased. And only L. Panteleev, breaking the blockade of officialdom, ineptly and sadly said a few words about Chukovsky’s civilian face.”
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17. The same chandelier from the title photo 
18. Desk 
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20. Chukovsky was translated into various languages 
21. Mini version of the Miracle Tree 
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24. Family photos
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See with your own eyes the very phone that the elephant called, or the jug that flashed on the pages of Moidodyr. Take a look into the cozy and glorious world of the author of “Cockroach”. Understand that this genius and kindest soul people are only allowed in this very house in Peredelkino.
All his life Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky worried that the gilded belly and mustachioed cockroach were obscured by their bright images his other works. However, he invariably wrote children's poems, invited children from all over the village to visit him, told them fairy tales and had an intelligent, lively conversation, for which he was adored from young to old. His house tells us in the best possible way about inner world author. The amazing atmosphere of the old wooden mansion, where everything remains exactly in the same condition as during Korney Ivanovich’s life, draws you into its slightly dusty, bright and infinitely joyful world. The world of fairy tales and poems, the world of galosh lover Totosha and the brave mosquito who defeated the spider.
The Chukovsky House Museum in Peredelkino seems so real that every minute you expect to see the writer at work. Or one of his guests sipping coffee somewhere in the garden. In addition to this rare atmosphere, the house introduces you to an interesting exhibition of photographs, paintings and books by Korney Ivanovich, where there are all the greatest representatives of Russian culture of the first quarter of the 20th century - Repin, Blok, Mayakovsky, Kuprin, Korovin.
The amazing atmosphere of the old wooden mansion, where everything remains exactly in the same condition as during Korney Ivanovich’s life, draws you into its slightly dusty, bright and infinitely joyful world.
But the writer’s daughter, Lidiya Korneevna Chukovskaya, who, even during her father’s lifetime, could not refuse an excursion to the first groups of visitors, needs to be thanked for such valuable minutes of staying in an atypical intelligentsia’s house at the beginning of the 20th century. She also kept the room where A.I. Solzhenitsyn lived intact. The author’s desk and exhibits reminiscent of his work and difficult fate have been preserved here.
Tatyana Gromova
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky
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This happened in the spring on the planet,
That March announced the birth of a poet,
Knight of Children's Literature,
Giver of feelings, knowledge, culture!
He appeared unexpectedly, with a juicy invention,
Fairytale plot, very accurate,
A wise storyteller, cheerful and friendly, -
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky.
In simple, understandable words
He talks about love, about suffering
Of bright images that have become
In life, family and great friends.
But in these kindest poems
The authorities saw the influence as harmful
To raise Soviet children,
And a shadow thickened over Chukovsky.
There was a signal in Pravda from Nadezhda Krupskaya,
That children don't need that kind of art.
And they began to fight against “Chukovism”:
“Let him renounce his poems,
To save the people as quickly as possible
From the murk about Barmaley!
But the kids held out their hands
To Moidodyr and Tsokotukha,
And they laughed and cried together,
They needed all this!
An ordinary Fly - what's wrong with it?
But her belly, her belly is golden!
And Mukha accidentally found the money,
I invited my friends to a feast with a samovar!
And this most luxurious feast,
Where the midge girlfriends swirled like a whirlwind,
And an act of terrible tragedy,
When the evil spider grabbed it to devour it,
This front sight with the golden mark!
How much suffering, how much heartache!
But Mushka needs to be saved quickly!
And tears of despair in children's eyes!
Me and this Fly in a paper book
How many roads came from, what is important.
It is from these memorized lines
There was a grammar lesson,
When I realized that every word
It consists of letters - discover which one!
Since then I started reading books,
What a surprise to father and mother!
In my life there was a time of growing up,
When I learned poetry
And the music of these beautiful patterns
I listened to everything, listened word by word.
And the brave mosquito is a savior, a hero -
Remained in my heart for a long time
Like faith in a reliable strong force,
Such protection from malice fragile peace!
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Korneychukov experienced humiliation,
What children are deprived of two-parent families,
And I realized: only with my own head
You can create your own life and home.
Looking for the essence, looking for answers,
He began to write for the Odessa newspaper,
And soon, English language having studied
He entered London as a correspondent.
There, thoroughly immersed
In the creations of venerable English idols, -
Absorbed a lot of knowledge
Which he later melted down
Into Russian, translating
Kipling, Wilde, Whitman, Twain...
Counted translations the most important matter
And I always did them.
Creator of "Chukokkala" - an almanac,
Originating in the Repin miracle Penates
Like an amazing child -
He led it himself until the last day.
How much writing soul has been given
For the appearance of critical essays
About Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Blok,
Chekhov, Bryusov, Gorky, Balmont...
He dedicated to the study of bad manners
Lifelong, meticulous work.
Son of St. Petersburg, Odessa, Moscow, -
He worked honestly and lived honestly.
Seven years before his death
He stood at the very top
Literary Oxford waves.
In a scarlet robe, with a pure heart
Humbly accepted the reward of life
Doctor of words, creator and hero.
And almost at the same time
Was noted Lenin Prize
For the monograph, revelation
“The Mastery of Nekrasov,” a genius.
Korney Chukovsky was buried
At the Peredelkinskoye cemetery in the fall,
When the leaves left the trees,
Smoothly circling in a farewell flight...
Streets are named after him
In the cities of a huge country,
Asteroid "Chukokkala" rushes
Somewhere beyond a dream,
And somewhere circling around
Recent opening -
Interesting subspecies of Fly!
She is named Tsokotukha,
We will meet her someday!
